Abortion legality by state

[100% pro-life no matter what]

The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned its former ruling today on a 4-1 vote.  A 6 week ban is now in effect in SC.

https://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-abortion-ban-f4e0d8ef8187fdd1e8db54dd464011b9?taid=64e61b5ce4fea000014e92b5&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

[Gass3268]

Not out a US state, but good news out of Mexico this week. Could be another option for Texas women.

[Gass3268]

Planned Parenthood will resume performing abortions next week in Dane County, Wisconsin.

https://twitter.com/alexandershur/status/1702340413816971743?s=46

Edit: Milwaukee County too

https://twitter.com/jrrosswrites/status/1702340848313073990?s=46

[Aspi]

From CNN

Georgia State Supreme Court upholds six-week abortion ban

The Georgia State Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban in a ruling Tuesday morning.

The ruling reverses a lower court’s decision to void certain sections of the LIFE Act because it was enacted prior to the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision one year ago that overturned the federal right to an abortion under Roe v. Wade.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Planned Parenthood will resume performing abortions next week in Dane County, Wisconsin.

https://twitter.com/alexandershur/status/1702340413816971743?s=46
Edit: Milwaukee County too

https://twitter.com/jrrosswrites/status/1702340848313073990?s=46

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GET WRECKED ExtremeRepublican and the Talibangelical set

[libertpaulian]

Issue 1 will win in a landslide.

https://twitter.com/rickklein/status/1722013809068445976

[Bernie Derangement Syndrome Haver]

Even if the GOP's scheme to require 60% to pass was successful, the pro-choice vote would still be on the winning side based on these results in Ohio.

This just goes to show how wildly out of touch anti-abortion positions are with the American people.

Don't mess with peoples' rights.

[pbrower2a]

Even if the GOP's scheme to require 60% to pass was successful, the pro-choice vote would still be on the winning side based on these results in Ohio.

This just goes to show how wildly out of touch anti-abortion positions are with the American people.

Don't mess with peoples' rights.

Extremist positions on abortion are losing propositions for 2024. I expect Republicans to either downplay them or lose elections with such positions. If abortion bans can lose 60-40 in Ohio then they ar political poison in any state.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Even if the GOP's scheme to require 60% to pass was successful, the pro-choice vote would still be on the winning side based on these results in Ohio.

This just goes to show how wildly out of touch anti-abortion positions are with the American people.

Don't mess with peoples' rights.

It wound up closer to 55%.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

[Reactionary Libertarian]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

Virginia GOP ran in that position but voters didn’t believe them. Same applies to any other Republican that tries to do that.

[Skill and Chance]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

Virginia GOP ran in that position but voters didn’t believe them. Same applies to any other Republican that tries to do that.

What if they started putting 12 or 15 weeks on the ballot as a counter-referendum to the MI/OH style referenda?  I don't think the state parties are that smart or willing to compromise, though.  Maybe if Trump endorses that approach.

[Reactionary Libertarian]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

Virginia GOP ran in that position but voters didn’t believe them. Same applies to any other Republican that tries to do that.

What if they started putting 12 or 15 weeks on the ballot as a counter-referendum to the MI/OH style referenda?  I don't think the state parties are that smart or willing to compromise, though.  Maybe if Trump endorses that approach.

If the ballot ensured access to abortion for 12-15 weeks then yes, I think that would work.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

That's not a "normal, sane compromise", it's an unfair restriction on women's freedom.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

That's not a "normal, sane compromise", it's an unfair restriction on women's freedom.

In practice later term abortions are not done lightly, but for serious contextual reasons. Do you really think any woman is going beyond second trimester and willingly choses an abortion because they randomly change their mind?

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

That's not a "normal, sane compromise", it's an unfair restriction on women's freedom.

In practice later term abortions are not done lightly, but for serious contextual reasons. Do you really think any woman is going beyond second trimester and willingly choses an abortion because they randomly change their mind?

15 weeks is not "beyond second trimester", it's the beginning of it.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

That's not a "normal, sane compromise", it's an unfair restriction on women's freedom.

In practice later term abortions are not done lightly, but for serious contextual reasons. Do you really think any woman is going beyond second trimester and willingly choses an abortion because they randomly change their mind?

15 weeks is not "beyond second trimester", it's the beginning of it.

I know tha

[Person Man]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

Virginia GOP ran in that position but voters didn’t believe them. Same applies to any other Republican that tries to do that.

If you know what is going on in Florida, you’ll know why.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Depressing that the normal, sane compromise position that's standard across Europe (legal until around 15 weeks) is so uncommon it doesn't have its own category.

Virginia GOP ran in that position but voters didn’t believe them. Same applies to any other Republican that tries to do that.

What if they started putting 12 or 15 weeks on the ballot as a counter-referendum to the MI/OH style referenda?  I don't think the state parties are that smart or willing to compromise, though.  Maybe if Trump endorses that approach.

Most voters don’t consider that a compromise.  As far as most folks are concerned (including ~1/5 - ~1/4 2016 Midwestern Trump voters depending on the state), this is a settled issue and there is really no further discussion to be had.  In other words, when push comes to shove, most voters support some version of “safe, legal, and rare with Roe as the law of the land.”  Planned Parenthood v. Casey was the compromise position because it allowed for the possibility that any abortion restrictions could be constitutional (ex: informed consent, 24 hour waiting period, etc).  

Republicans may not like it, but they are so wildly out of step with the majority of Americans on this major issue that what folks like Youngkin consider a compromise is functionally no different to many voters than a moment of conception ban with no exceptions.  

Put simply, unless Republicans do a major 180 on abortion (or at least, truly stop trying to ban/restrict it), they’re going to keep getting their a**es kicked on this issue.  And if they do a 180, then the base abandons them, so it is a real catch-22.  Now, sometimes that’s worth it.  Gun control is undeniably a net political loser for Democrats, but it is one of my most important issues and I feel it is so important that it is a hill worth dying on.  If you genuinely believe abortion is murder, you’d have to be a monster to support anything less than a complete ban with no exceptions.  

The problem for Republicans is that most voters don’t think it is murder and if you don’t think abortion is murder (even if, like me, it still makes you deeply uncomfortable to the point that you’re personally opposed to it despite being pro-choice), then banning it becomes morally unjustifiable (and if it isn’t murder, then as a man who will obviously never have to face this horrible and painful choice, who the hell am I to tell any woman what she has to do when confronted with such a truly impossible choice?).  

Honestly, the only out Republicans have on this issue is for Dobbs to eventually get reversed and then for them to subsequently quietly deemphasize the issue the way they did with gay marriage post-Obergefell.  Until then, Democrats will continue to attack them on it and the issue will remain one of the most important every election cycle until Dobbs gets reversed.  Despite Republican hopes, this isn’t an issue that will lose salience with time.

[politicallefty]

I agree with the above, but I also have to say I'm impressed as to how the so-called "parental rights" argument seems to be falling flat. Apparently, that's what the No on 1 side in Ohio put all over their yard signs. The right-wing appears to be trying different methods of attack, but none seem to stick so far.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Missouri Supreme Court awards legal victories to abortion rights supporters for next year's ballot initiative.

[Person Man]

Great victory for women!

https://twitter.com/paulareedward/status/1751978140233048230?s=46

[Gass3268]

MT will have a vote on if there is a right to an abortion in the Montana Constitution in November.

https://twitter.com/MontanaMuckrake/status/1769856134285083120?s=20

[Skill and Chance]

MT will have a vote on if there is a right to an abortion in the Montana Constitution in November.

https://twitter.com/MontanaMuckrake/status/1769856134285083120?s=20

I thought there was already a state level constitutional right to abortion in MT?  Perhaps it was through a judicial decision vs. written law?

[Virginiá]

Florida Supreme Court approves Amendment 4 (right to abortion before viability) for the 2024 ballot

https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2285282/opinion/Opinion_SC2023-1392.pdf